Steam-separator.



No. 739,596. PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903. G. M. FRIESLAND.

STEAM SEPARATOR.

APPLIOATION FILED, EAR. 3, 1903.

2:0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 22, 1903.

PATENT QFFIGE.

CHARLES M. FRIESLAND, OF TROY, ILLINOIS.

STEAM ,-SEPARATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,596, dated September 22, 1903. Application filed March 8, 1903. Serial No. 146,012. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern,-

Beitkn own thatl, CHARLES M. FRIESLAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, Madison county, Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Separators, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof. v

My invention relates to steam-separators, and has for its object improved means whereby the precipitated water may be readily separated from the body of steam.

In the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section along the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, my device consists of a metallic structure 3, to which the body of steam and water is admitted through the opening 4, from which the precipitated water passes immediately downward through the opening 5 into any of the well-known forms of trap, (not shown,) the exit for the steam being unobstructedly upward and thence to the outlet, (indicated by the numeral 6.) I have found that on principle the separation of the water from the steam under pressure requires that the cross-section of the passage through which the steam is conducted must not be materially contracted, whether for the purpose of facilitating the separation of the precipitated water or other- Wise. To this end my structure 3 is provided upward movement of the steam.

with a transverse .wall 7, inclined, as shown, toward the point from which steam is admitted, the wall 7 rising to a point approximately in the plane of the tops of the openings 4: and 6; but this does not obstruct the The upper wall of the structure 3, as shown in section in Fig. 1, describes a curve about the upper edge of the transverse wall 7, so that the body of steam is permitted to pass immediately and unobstructedly upward througha channel approximately the same in section as the openings 4 and 6. By this means the efficiency of the columnof steam is preserved unimpaired during its progress through my separating device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to have secured to me by the grant of Letters Patent, is-

Theim proved steam-separator, comprising a horizontal casing having a steam-passage unobstructed except by the separating-wall '7 extending in an inclined direction upwardly from the base of the casing, with a free edge projecting at the upper line of said steampassage, forming a steam-passage above the free upper edge of said wall, and a water-exit below the said inclined wall but on the steaminlet side thereof, substantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES M. FRIESLAND. Witnesses:

ALFRED A. EIOKS, JOHN G. HIcDoN. 

